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San Jacinto County's second jail, noted for a rare but never used hangman's trap, was built in 1887 by L.T. Noyes of Houston after the county was organized in 1871. Later, the Southern Structural Steel Company of San Antonio installed cells and the unusual execution device, and that firm also built an annex in 1911. In 1915 the county's frame courthouse burned, and when a new brick courthouse was built a quarter-mile to the southwest, the town's axis shifted away from the jail area, though the jail still serves its official role.
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